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Deepen and broaden your resiliency parenting advice while you work with families on social determinants of health with this trauma-informed approach. Behavior problems may bring the child to you & this step-by-step approach shifts toxic stress to tolerable and support protective, Positive Childhood Experiences!
Box breathing on one side and a child-friendly version of the body scan.
Trauma-informed, positive parenting strategies for caregivers to respond to behaviors in a meaningful way that supports relational health.
Strategy for caregivers to regulate their own nervous systems before they parent.
Try this breathing exercise to reduce stress and calm worried thoughts. You can easily teach this to your patients.
I know this seems ridiculously simple. Next time you are feeling stressed, take five big deep breaths and practice it so you can teach your patients!
Remember to share this with your patients and their parents - emotions come and go with their own rhythm. Nothing will last forever!
Emotion coaching can help parents understand their role in supporting their child's emotional development.
Try this meditation at home and you can teach kids as young as 2 how to meditate like this!
Try this meditation at home and you can teach kids as young as 2 how to meditate like this!
Loving Kindness Meditation is useful with stress and anxiety, it specifically is helpful for worried parents and teens.
Working with a family that is not in the habit of talking about feelings? Use this to start the conversation.
This is a simple sensory mindfulness technique you can teach very young children. Parents can use it too!
This is a simple body scan technique that helps with anxiety and helps you fall asleep. You can teach it to very young children and show parents how to coach them through the body scan if they are having trouble accessing breathing or falling asleep.
Seriously, this is why we have a kitchen or we would all be "hangry" all the time. Put everything you and your kids need to take care of other unpleasant feelings in one spot and make it welcoming.
If you are working with families to promote resilience building protective and positive childhood experiences, use these resources to help. You can also enroll in my online course for more support in how to use them.
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DownloadCOVID brought stress levels for families & providers to unprecedented levels. This workshop provides a step-wise approach to identify, classify and address social determinants of health contributing to toxic stress using the HOPE framework. Utilizing the four building blocks of HOPE (environment, engagement, relationships, emotional growth), this workshop will outline first aid for toxic stress and illustrate how providers can apply this approach in any encounter.
Positive Childhood Experiences refer to seven items studied by Bethell et al and are listed to the right. We know that higher ACEs scores are associated with poorer life long health. As providers, we have mostly been trained to treat the adverse health outcomes & try to prevent ACEs.
But what if we can do more?
Resilience University helps you integrate PCEs INTO your existing anticipatory guidance as well as giving you the structure and tools you need to offer focused guidance to facilitate more PCEs in your high risk families.
Researchers have identified four building blocks crucial for Healthy Outcomes from Positive Childhood Experiences (HOPE) This approach will help you foster resilience within your families, strengthening them from the inside out, by supporting their emotional health, strengthening their relational health and ensuring they have as many resources as they can to foster safe, stable and nurturing environments.
Start with this webinar and earn 3 CME credits!
This guide will walk you through the four sessions with families and how to decide which tools and resources to use at each session.
The 2016 Zero to Three Study showed that parents frequently come to their provider with parenting questions but we were getting a D- for the usefulness of our advice. This is my report card from Resilience University!
Stressed parents are often unable to listen to their child's feelings because the child's distress triggers their own! Here's a simple strategy you can offer.
In a normal day, numerous unpleasant things are bound to happen, especially when a parent has multiple kids. We can judge these as bad or we can simply remain curious about what is going on with our children and how they are feeling.
When we choose to become a parent, we often don't think about the sheer volume and speed of all the decisions we are going to be making for baby. Self-care can offset the impact of decision fatigue.
Everything you need to make one!
Everything you need to make these with your patients!
All the other tools you can use to help families integrate self-care and emotional wellness into their day.
Here are the books. Parents need to find the time.
Here are the books & workbooks for teens.
Here are books to recommend for children.
Use this as a conversation starter with families or as part of Resilience University.
PDSA cycles help families make changes - here is a simple example of how to help start the process.
Here are two sessions to help you understand how to approach these conversations with families.
The first part is the background and basics.
The second is more about how to do the PDSA cycles.
Watch me do a short mock interview with a parent to see how I frame these discussions.
Use this in your office to let families know that you can help.
Poster or fold-able flyer for teens & their families.
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